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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | More RAM

DVA5001
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on September 16 2007
B757 100 Club
50 State Club
Everett 500 Club
Million Mile Club
Globetrotter
Online Century Club
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
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US Capital Club
Flying Colonel
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Lake Dallas, TX USA

1,791 legs, 4,744.0 hours
131 legs, 236.5 hours online
1,728 legs, 4,603.4 hours ACARS
19 legs, 36.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 16 2016 15:02 ET by Art Forsha

My computer only has 8 GB of RAM. I'm going to get it up to maybe 32GB in order to run XPlane a little better. How can I tell what type of RAM to get? There are so many kinds. I read somewhere that I have to go into the BIOS or something to see what speed my motherboard processes RAM, etc etc..

Can someone give me a little guidance?

Thanks.

Art Forsha

Senior Captain, MD-88

DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 16 2016 15:07 ET by Sean Zarella

do you have the box of the MB you have? or look into the pc and you see the name of the company and a REV # That way we can look up the Memory type and max support.

another option you can do is download CPU-Z and it will tell you that as well.

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

Posted onPost created on September 16 2016 15:33 ET by Art Forsha

CPU-Z installed now. It says Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology, Model: Z77X-D3H, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge Rev 09, Southbridge: Intel Z77 Rev 04

Under BIOS
Brand: American Megatrends, Verson: F16

Under Graphic Interface
Version: PCI-Express
Link Width x16
Max Supported X16

Under Memory I see that I have DDR3 @ 8 GB

Art Forsha

Senior Captain, MD-88

DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP

Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
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"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL

153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs, 43.1 hours online
145 legs, 252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs, 23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4 hours

Posted onPost created on September 16 2016 15:41 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

Here are your choices:

Up to 4 sticks of DDR3 2800(OC)/1600/1333/1066 MHz

I recommend this one...
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Ballistix-PC3-12800-240-Pin-BLS8G3D1609DS1S00/dp/B007HAXMGA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474054947&sr=8-1&keywords=ddr3%2B1600%2B8gb%2Bram&th=1

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
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Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on September 16 2016 15:51 ET by Andrew Vane

I'm trying to go from 8GB to 16GB and saw 5 sticks for $30 on ebay. I have an old HP6200 Minitower business machine so 16GB will max me out. This is my "converted into a flight sim rig".

http://www.ebay.com/itm/172106716683?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Probably won't make that much of a difference but going from an i5 to an i7 would cost $150 or more for only a small 10-15% gain in performance.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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